British India: Causes of the Mutiny (Government)

Question 1

What was the impact of ‘every’ reform from the East India Company?

Answer 1

Dispossessed, demoted or degraded one class of Indian people or another

Question 2

What was the new system of higher education based on?

Answer 2

English language, literature and science

Question 3

What new system was based on the English language, literature and science?

Answer 3

Higher education

Question 4

Through introducing English literature, language and science into higher education, who did this undermine?

Answer 4

Challenged and superseding (undermining the status) of the old Muslim elite

Question 5

What was a British concept of law?

Answer 5

Placing equality before law

Question 6

Who had a concept that placed equality before law?

Answer 6

British

Question 7

How did the Indians feel about the British concept of equality before law?

Answer 7

Insulted the honour of the high castes. “When sued by a mean labourer, or male or female servant, you are summoned without investigation to attend their Court, and are thus dishonoured and degraded”

Question 8

What British concept offended the high castes Indians?

Answer 8

Placing equality before law

Question 9

What did free trade ruin?

Answer 9

Urban artisan class

Question 10

What ruined the urban artisan class?

Answer 10

Free trade

Question 11

Where was Indian resentment for the British the greatest?

Answer 11

Inside the countryside

Question 12

What did the British do within the country side to increase efficiency and profit?

Answer 12

New order of land that has never existed before
Individual land ownerships
Money rents
Free market

Question 13

Where were policies like individual land ownership, money rents and free markets introduced?

Answer 13

In the countryside

Question 14

Why did the British introduce a new order of land in the countryside?

Answer 14

Increase efficiency and profit

Question 15

What was the impact of the British changing the order the countryside?

Answer 15

Pattern of rural life was breaking up
Families were forced to abandon land their families had worked for generations
Thousands of farmers were unable to pay government taxes and fell into debt

Question 16

What was the impact of the British standardising the system for collecting land revenue?

Answer 16

Made it easier to evict those with “revenue rights”, who defaulted on payment, widened and deepened the reservoir of rebellion

Question 17

What was “revenue rights”?

Answer 17

the right to levy a revenue on behalf of the state and pass a proportion to the government’s collectors

Question 18

What was the right to levy a revenue on behalf of the state and pass a proportion to the government’s collectors

Answer 18

“Revenue rights”

Question 19

What happened in January 1856?

Answer 19

Madras native Association challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed

Question 20

When had the Madras native Association challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed?

Answer 20

January 1856

Question 21

Who challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed in January 1856?

Answer 21

Madras native Association

Question 22

After British intervention, how often were land tax demanded?

Answer 22

Quarterly instalments

Question 23

After British intervention, what was demanded in quarterly instalments?

Answer 23

Land Tax

Question 24

What was the impact of demanding land tax in quarterly instalments?

Answer 24

Farmers would be in debt, as they would have to pay rent before they have actually made profit from food production

Question 25

What is the Marxist view of the rebellion?

Answer 25

Blames economic exploitation, as he believed that capitalism only continued if they took materials and therefore imperialism was a byproduct.